Infant Medical Futility Analysis

Infant Medical Futility is about a baby unfortunately born with a cerebral disease not allowing him to grow consciousness. As their attempts were not heading to success, doctors qualify the treatment as futile and decided that it was not necessary whatsoever to keep the baby alive anymore and eventually declared that they would refuse to ventilate him if his respiratory issues come to wake up again. The question that is to be asked is if it is morally right to keep the baby alive. Certainly, as the baby would not be able to be conscious as he grows up, keeping him alive is just inflicting him and his surroundings pain, more medical expenses that could be avoided thus it would be morally best not to keep him alive as not being conscious implicitly means being dead.
The moral dilemma here is either let this human being and its parents suffer as there will not be any consciousness or just implicitly kill him as the illness does not seem to be curable. Deontologists would argue that some actions are by their nature always wrong such as killing and stealing however in this case the dilemma would be to choose between worst and bad. It would be morally best to choose bad and increase the amount of …show more content…
Thus, in a deontologist view it would be best to maximize the happiness of the kid who will not be able to gain consciousness, and his surroundings and not let him live in a world where that child could be victim of social neglections and rejections. That moral and psychological pain in addition to the financial expanses his parents might encounter in order to cure that illness could be avoided although it is viewed as morally wrong to kill yet situations and circumstances can differ thus push one to do so either explicitly or

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